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Rogue5099 16

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To update a DeepFrozen computer you have to reboot Thawed, Update, then reboot Frozen. There are options to thaw the computer for "x" amounts of boots. Problem is when updating sometime you need to reboot to complete update i.e. starting services. Best thing to do is:

Run Script to first boot thawed: DFC password /BOOTTHAWED

Restart

Run script to update

Restart if needed

Verify Updates

Run DFC password /BOOTFROZEN

Restart

Also you could lock keyboard and mouse to prevent unauthorized installs while thawed:

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To update a DeepFrozen computer you have to reboot Thawed, Update, then reboot Frozen. There are options to thaw the computer for "x" amounts of boots. Problem is when updating sometime you need to reboot to complete update i.e. starting services. Best thing to do is:

Run Script to first boot thawed: DFC password /BOOTTHAWED

Restart

Run script to update

Restart if needed

Verify Updates

Run DFC password /BOOTFROZEN

Restart

Also you could lock keyboard and mouse to prevent unauthorized installs while thawed:

Anyone any ideas on how to get this working or to at the very least get the frozen state of the workstation? Obviously this will be tricky for anyone to test unless they have Deep Freeze installed on a test machine.

The long and the short of it is I'm writing a tool that will run at startup to check when the last AV and Windows updates were run, if it is longer than a week, the machine is rebooted thawed and the updates are run, but I need to check the Frozen\Thawed state to be able to determine what needs done next.